Senator Reed spoke at the first annual Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Yom HaShoah ceremony, which took place at the Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial along River Walk in Providence. Other speakers at the ceremony included Jeffrey K. Savit, President & CEO of the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island, Cantor Jodi Blankstein, Rabbis Wayne Franklin and Howard Voss-Altman, and Herbert B. Stern, Chair of the Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Committee. Two poems were recited by 5th graders from the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island.
